William Parry Murphy (1892 to 1987) was an American physician who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple for their combined work in devising and treating macrocytic anemia, specifically pernicious anemia. Born at Stoughton, Wisconsin, he moved to Condon, Oregon as a youth, completed his A.B. degree at the University of Oregon in 1914 and his M.D. at Harvard Medical School in 1922. His later work built on Whipple's finding that eating liver restored anemic dogs, and the 1926 paper he wrote with Minot, Treatment of pernicious anemia by a special diet, showed that raw liver and its extracts could treat a disease that had been terminal. He won the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh with Minot in 1930.
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His father, Thomas Francis Murphy, was a congregational minister
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He completed his M.D. in 1922 from Harvard Medical School
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